Lev. 20:2

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Whosoever.

Lev 17:8; Lev 17:13; Lev 17:15

giveth.

Lev 18:21; Deut 12:31; Deut 18:10; 2Kgs 17:17; 2Kgs 23:10; 2Chr 28:3; 2Chr 33:6; Ps 106:38

Isa 57:5; Isa 57:6; Jer 7:31; Jer 32:35; Ezek 16:20; Ezek 16:21; Ezek 20:26; Ezek 20:31; Ezek 23:37; Ezek 23:39

Ac 7:43

Moloch.

Molech.

The Rabbins describe this idol as made of brass sitting upon a throne of the same metal, in the form of a man, with the head of a calf, adorned with a royal crown, and his arms extended as if to embrace any one.

When they offered any children to him, they heated the statue by a great fire kindled within, and the victim was put into his arms, and thus consumed. Others relate, that the idol, which was hollow, was divided into seven compartments within; in one of which they put flour, in the second turtles, in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and the seventh a child; which were all burnt together by heating the statue inside.

The account which Diodorus (l. xx.) gives of the statue of Saturn, to which the Carthaginians, descendants of the Canaanites, sacrificed their children, is very similar. For they had a brazen stature of Saturn, stretching out his hands towards the ground, in such a manner that the children placed within them tumbled down into a pit full of fire. To this account Milton alludes, in Paradise Lost, B. 1. 392. the people.

Lev 20:27; Lev 24:14; Lev 24:23; Num 15:35; Num 15:36; Deut 13:10; Deut 13:11; Deut 17:5-7; Deut 21:21; Acts 7:58; Acts 7:59